Wednesday, July 11, 2012

4th of July

I can’t believe it’s already been a week! The time is flying by this summer. We headed out to Santa Cruz for our “Cow” family reunion camping trip. Julio thought it would only take 20 minutes to pack the car-it took him 2 hours. We had a lot of stuff to “pretend to be homeless” for 3 days and 6 people. We finally got out the door at noon, only to have to stop to eat an hour later. We got lost trying to find the campsite and the kids got extremely carsick on the curvy coastal highway. But, we finally made it around 4 pm where we unpacked our stuff and then found out we didn’t have a campstove. Tromp over to grandma and grampa’s camp where we mooched dinner off of them. Then we decided to head down to Scotts Valley with all the cow families to watch the fireworks. We found a parking lot and set up. The view of the fireworks through the tall redwoods was amazing. The show lasted almost a half hour and we were pleasantly surprised. It was a good show! The only thing missing was the accompanying patriotic music.

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It was cold, so we headed back to the camp and roasted marshmallows for smores. It was fun. Happy birthday USA!

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